Thank you all! Yep, Martijn, thanks for bringing this up, I saw that too and I plan to check on that first. I'll move forwards with that in the next couple days.
Best, Ferenc On Monday, March 9th, 2026 at 09:44, Martijn Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Overall I'm +1 for shipping a new release, but the weekly tests for the > Kafka connector haven't run successfully for a long time. It will be good > to first make sure that all (still supported) versions can successfully run > their tests, to make sure that this is running stable. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM David Radley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > From: Bowen Li <[email protected]> > > Date: Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 22:18 > > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0 > > > > +1 > > > > besides, due to the limitation of current pyflink and doc structure between > > flink and each connector repo, kafka connector version in /flink-python and > > /docs need to be updated to the upcoming release version, in order to pick > > up changes since the last kafka connector release > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM Rahul Bhattacharya <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Can you remove from the mailing list > > > > > > Thanks And Regards > > > Rahul > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM Ferenc Csaky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello devs, > > > > > > > > I'd like to start a conversation to release a new Kafka connector major > > > > version. > > > > The last Kafka connector release happened right after Flink 2.0 came > > out, > > > > and > > > > since then we shipped a bunch of fixes and improvements, one of them > > > being > > > > the > > > > Kafka client major version upgrade from 3.x to 4.x [1]. > > > > > > > > Based on this I suggest to release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0, > > compiled > > > > with > > > > Flink 2.1, and 2.2. > > > > > > > > I am happy to volunteer as release manager. > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Ferenc > > > > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12356170 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best, > > Bowen > > > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 > > Registered office: Building C, IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road, > > Winchester, Hampshire SO21 2JN > > >
